Numbers 6:13 (LSB)

Passage

‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:11 And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall set apart his head as holy,

Numbers 6:12 and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days of his Nazirite vow and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his Nazirite vow was defiled.

Numbers 6:13 ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 6:14 And he shall bring his offering near to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,

Numbers 6:15 and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "nazirite", "days", "fulfilled", "shall", "bring", "offering", and "doorway". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "nazirite" and "days", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days..." into verse 14's "And he shall bring his offering near...", so "nazirite" and "days" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "nazirite" and "days" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.